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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0883929007608 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: WARD036695D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 13, 2008 Running Time: 143 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1945 Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/10/2008 Rating: Nr Amazon.com essential video: Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra teamed up for their first of three musical comedies in this frothy confection of sailors on leave in Hollywood, with gawky, shy young Sinatra tagging along with his worldly buddy Kelly, who promises to show him the ropes. Overlong at more than two hours, this meandering production is light on story, and more than a little sentimental, but full of first-rate entertainment. Sinatra croons "I Fall in Love Too Easily" and "What Makes the Sunset," chirpy costar Kathryn Grayson sings "All of a Sudden My Heart Sings," classical pianist José Iturbi provides a little highbrow interlude, and Gene Kelly dances with cartoon mouse Jerry (of Tom and Jerry fame) when not chasing dames. Somewhere in the midst of this, little Dean Stockwell makes his film debut as a runaway orphan who melts the heart of self-centered Kelly. This big-budget Technicolor extravaganza, directed by MGM stalwart and musical specialist George Sidney (Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate), was one of the studio's biggest hits in 1945. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A First-Rate ShowcaseYes, Anchors Aweigh is long. Very, very long (2 hours and 20 minutes) and best absorbed in two sittings, if possible. However ... I, personally, have the attention span of a goldfish and this movie never left me bored. The plot is rather basic: two sailors (Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra) go on four-day leave and fall in with (and fall in love with) a beautiful young singer (Kathryn Grayson) and her little nephew (Dean Stockwell). What this movie is, more than anything, is a showcase ... Read More Rating: - Fantastic MovieI think everyone should watch this movie and all other old movies!! I truly enjoy this movie, it is such a treat to watch, especially Gene Kelly dancing with Jerry the Mouse!!!!! Fantastic!!!! Rating:  - Enjoyable Kelly/Sinatra musical and the last full film directed by Busby BerkeleyThe film opens on the deck of a destroyer where Clarence Doolittle (Frank Sinatra) and Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) receive commendations for staying at their posts during a brutal battle. Many of the men on the ship get leave while off the shore of Los Angeles allowing Clarence and Joe to hit the shore and have fun. Joe, Clarence and their friends decide they are going to hit Hollywood. Joe a well known womanizer finds the shy Clarence dogging his steps so he can learn how to be a lady's man. Joe reluctantly ... Read More Rating: - For one great moment, worth the price of admissionRather generic Sinatra and generic Kelly, both of whom must have made pretty much the same musical a dozen times for MGM. Not all that great a movie, really, but better than most Hollywood musicals, and it has does have its moments. The classical numbers from Jose Iturbi are better than Kelly's usual material, which Kelly repeated in one form or another for some fifteen years. Young Kathryn Grayson is irresistibly cute. The DVD color is gorgeous, a tribute to the 1940's golden age of Technicolor. I've always ... Read More Rating: - No anchor - sky-high enjoymentOf the Kelly-Sinatra musicals, runs a close second to On the Town. Humorous, great songs and singing and dancing. A good family film in the best sense of the term. Only those whose souls are dead could fail to enjoy this. |
